Mediagazer: HBO's parent division WarnerMedia, owned by AT&T, says it plans to launch a streaming service in Q4 2019 (Brian Stelter/CNN)

3:35 PM ET, October 10, 2018

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Brian Stelter / CNN:

HBO's parent division WarnerMedia, owned by AT&T, says it plans to launch a streaming service in Q4 2019 — (CNN)Four months after being acquired by AT&T, WarnerMedia is making plans for a streaming TV service that will be sold directly to consumers. — WarnerMedia, the division …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Snapchat launches Snap Originals, 12 daily scripted original shows for its Discover section, with each episode lasting four or five minutes — Snapchat needs reasons for teens to come back every day as it struggles to grow amidst competition from Instagram, so it's capitalizing on its Los Angeles roots.

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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Deadline:

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman say their new mobile video startup is called Quibi; Guillermo del Toro and Jason Blum are both creating shows for it — Media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and veteran tech executive Meg Whitman used the prominent platform of Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit …

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Jason Schwartz / Politico:

Press freedom advocates are worried about Trump's weak statements on the Khashoggi case, which they feel will endanger journalists working overseas — Press advocates worry that Saudi Arabia will conclude that the U.S. is uninterested in the disappearance of a writer for one of its most famous newspapers.

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Chloe Aiello / CNBC:

21st Century Fox Vice Chair Chase Carey said media companies would continue to consolidate as they battled Google and Netflix over content — - Media consolidation will continue as companies compete for unique franchises and greater scale, 21st Century Fox Vice Chair Chase Carey says.

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James Murdoch and six other directors have resigned from the board of Sky plc, which is the owner of Sky News, as Comcast takes control

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

The Trust Project, which encourages publishers to tag articles with indicators like author expertise, adds partners including Toronto Star, El País, and SkyNews — The Trust Project, which launched last November as an effort to provide more clarity around who's behind news by labeling articles with …

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Chantal Fernandez / The Business of Fashion:

Teen Vogue has named Lindsay Peoples Wagner, fashion editor at New York Magazine and The Cut, as its new editor-in-chief starting October 18 — Condé Nast has named a successor to Phillip Picardi, who is exiting the publisher this month to lead Out Magazine.

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Matt Lopez / The Wrap:
Condé Nast is launching a new eight-episode series called “Risky Biz”, which was inspired by an article in The New Yorker, on Facebook Watch on Oct 21

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Alexandra Stevenson / New York Times:

Employees at Facebook's fact-checking partner in the Philippines, online news site Rappler, say they're struggling to “clean up Facebook's mess” — MANILA — The fictional news stories pop up on Facebook faster than Paterno Esmaquel II and his co-workers can stamp them out.

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

STAT, the medical news site that shares an owner with The Boston Globe, is focusing on big group subscriptions and may launch a more specialized product in 2019 — Is man flu real? Is jet lag worse when you're traveling east? Does smoking pot make you stupid?

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

BuzzFeed hires Disney veteran Eric W. Muhlheim as its new CFO starting October 15 — BuzzFeed has hired Eric W. Muhlheim, who previously spent 16 years at the Walt Disney Co., as its new CFO. — Muhlheim replaces Mark Frackt, who departed as BuzzFeed's CFO in July after more than six years with the company.

Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:

Franklin Foer reflects on his 2016 article about server activity between the Trump Campaign and Russia, and the frustrations and rewards of being a journalist — For at least the past two years, Americans have lived in an extended state of suspense about what could be the most nefarious scandal in the nation's political history.

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Axios:

HBO's four Axios docu-news series to debut Sunday Nov. 4 and continue through all four Sundays of November — HBO will announce today that “Axios,” a four-part series of news specials we're co-producing with HBO Documentary Films, will debut two days before midterms — Sunday, Nov. 4 …

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